i am nancy bennett director for the school. you may not know this, but i suspect you do looking at you all that you are in a quaker school. if you ve met a quaker, you ve met a friend with a c. capital f. you ve heard of the friends, the obama daughters at chelsea clinton at it, matt ryan, quarterback for the atlanta falcons, high school football in philadelphia. most are located in the northeast but we are the only ones of georgia. what unifies are the values that inform each school community and those values are simplicity, peace, integrity, community, he quality of stewardship summed up by the acronym. let me clear up some common misperceptions they shouldn t be confused with the amish. they also believe in disrupting social conventions with the radical notion that every single individual is up to the network. one of the very first founded the penn charter alma mater in 1689 b. leaving that a democracy was to woris to work everyone ne educated. so this was long before publ
what a perfect introduction. thank you. that s great. john and i are delighted to be back here at the lincoln forum. those of you who know us even a little bit will not be surprise today hear last night we had an opportunity to get together and consume some wine. and in the midst of that conversation, fueled by wine we were talking about how we were th terribly jealous of ron chernow whose biography of hamilton inspired a very lucrative musical on broadway. so we thought how appropriate it would be to have joseph e. johnston the musical. [laughter] or william t. sherman the musical or the one that really inspired us was henry wager halek the musical. as you see on the screen here and you ll be delighted to hear, this is not going to be a musical presentation today. instead, alas, it is a tragedy in three acts. act one. on april 17, 1865, which is a full week after lee surrendered to grant at appomattox as we just heard a few moments ago, joseph e. johnston and william t.
he is also the winner of the that particular book won the samuel elliott morrison award. e is the author of lincoln and his admirals which won the lincoln prize in 2009. in recognition of his extraordinary contribution, the naval historicle foundation in 2014 awarded him the congressman duredudly w. knox history award for lifetime achievement. professor john mars lak is william s. giles distinguished professor emeritus of mississippi state university came out of retirement in 2008 and accepted the task of serving as executive director of the uelills sis s grant presidential library and managing editors. he is the tautsdzer of a dozen books. incheweding sherman. and sherman s other war. his honors include an excellence in writing award from the u.s. army historicle oundation. as testament to the high regard in which he is held, several of his students contributed to an editted volume titled, of times and race. ees says inspired. i was honored to have the opportunity to contr
finally, in april of 1862 northern troops began bombarding for polaski. the amazing thing was, they could hit everything they were aiming at from a distance they laid outside of the ability of the confederates to land a telling blow in return. the closer they got to the magazine, the more quickly commander olmsted was able to fly the flag of surrender and give for polaski over to the union. and in effect, inform robbery lee that the blockade of southern ports was going to work, because the union had technology that was going to overcome anything the confederates could do to answer it. they couldn t counter the parent rifles that the union army had. we hope to be doing a lot of digitizing and scanning of the correspondence because it contains a lot of genealogical information that will be of interest families. a lot of the families who did not return, of soldiers to maine, but whose family members would now like to know, what did there great, great, grandfather do during the w
a portion of cox s forces, capturing 800 federals and one canon. things look pretty good for the confederates on the first day but then the second day cox brings up reinforcement. the federals dig in. bragg attempts an attack on the tense, but he s repulsed. receiving words that cox is receiving still more reinforcements, bragg decides to fall back towards goldsboro ending the battle of lysis forks. in the meantime, sherman plots the course of his army group from fayetteville. goldsboro is his objective, but he wants to keep johnston guessing as to what his objective is. he s going to send the left wing under slocum northward on the old raleigh stage road, as if he s heading towards the north carolina state capital. they will be marching in light marching order, all the unnecessary wagons will be with the right wing under howard. they will be taking direct roads to goldsboro. the idea is to keep johnston up in the air as to where sherman is heading. johnston has a plan of his